Greetings from Hoxton Square, where the past few weeks have been particularly busy. We had the pleasure of launching Ysenda Maxtone Graham’s debut novella Love Divine with a bang at Daunt Books, Marylebone, and are still reeling from Readers’ Day, our annual one-day literary festival, which took place in The Art Workers’ Guild in Bloomsbury.
After much buzz and chatter, we have settled back into the routine of office life, where Christmas orders are coming in thick and fast. We’re delighted to report that the new winter issue of Slightly Foxed with a brilliant cover courtesy of Cambridge Imprint, left the printing press at Smith Settle last week and should have arrived – or will do so shortly – with subscribers all around the world. We do hope you enjoy it.
With the biting cold creeping in and the news as bleak as ever, we thought that this week we’d highlight some light-hearted, humorous reads to bring some light relief during troubled times.
Please scroll on for an extract from the opening of the endlessly entertaining Diary of a Provincial Lady by E. M. Delafield, a selection of further light-hearted reading recommendations (including a limited number of the annual treat of The Country Doctor Philip Rhys Evans’s commonplace pamphlet Wonders and Absurdities) and a special offer from our friends at The Oldie – one of the most cheering magazines around today.
With best wishes, as ever, from the SF staff
Isabel, Edie, Rebecca, Ruth & Jennie
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